The Reipuman

This is one of those Japanese flicks or even franchise that is highly sought. The reason is that it was based on a manga. The story of the rapeman is a bit sleazy.

A teacher and his uncle do run a business where you can use the services to punish someone by raping. The teacher (Hiroyuki Okita) is a normal guy at day but becomes a nasty one who go out to rape girls for punishment. But don't think that it ever becomes gory or explicit. It do has some nudity in it but not to mention. No drip of blood is seen in this 74 minute flick. By clocking in at that time it's over before you know it. It's watchable because the acting isn't typical exaggerated as in so many flicks coming from Japan or Hong Kong.

The version I had was an official VHS release with English subs, a version that doesn't pop up on a usual base. The other parts (until 4) are even harder to get on an official release (on the pink pineapple label). Even as it is low on brutality or blood and nudity it is watchable because they combined a small piece of comedy in it. The sleazy pieces do add something too. Low for a 'pinku' but recommendable.

The franchise did got a spin-off after 1996, they made Ôedo Reipuman (1996). Evene harder to get. But both franchises came to an abrupt end due the death of Hiroyuki Okita in 1999. He committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 1/5

"Rapeman 1" is a well written and sweet genre hybrid that mainstreams the original manga's more controversial elements and delivers a quality piece of entertainment.

Rapeman and his uncle run Rapeman Services, a company catering to wronged, vengeance-seeking spouses and spurned lovers.

In this outing, Rapeman and Uncle become embroiled in a political party's attempt to disgrace an opponent.

Rapeman, a school teacher by day, rapist by night, is also a detective and has a strong sense of justice.

"Righting wrongs through penetration" is the company motto and many wrongs are righted here.

Shot on video and given the "film look" treatment, this fascinating genre hybrid is skilfully directed and nicely scored.

The actor portraying Rapeman ended his own life recently and, thus, ended this terrific series.

"Rapeman" is the first installment of hugely popular and politically incorrect series about a quiet and mild-mannered teacher who becomes secretly a leather-clad and masked superhero called Rapeman.You can hire him,if you want to get the revenge against someone through rape.This time a bar hostess hires Rapeman to rape the new wife of her former boyfriend and noted politician.The plot of "Rapeman" may sound offensive for some viewers,however the film is not as violent and sleazy as many other notable pinku flicks.In fact it's surprisingly funny and humorous.The rape scenes are very tame and there is only a little bit of nudity,so the film can be enjoyed even by the viewers who dislike pinku genre.A perfect flick to cheer somebody up!

This movie (the first a series) is basically a low-budget, but actually pretty entertaining superhero spoof about a mild-mannered Japanese schoolteacher who teams up with his uncle to make money AND right the wrongs in society. The reason this will never get an American reboot though is the WAY in which he rights the wrongs in society--by handcuffing and raping evil women! The character is the serial rapist version of "Dexter" in that he only rapes women who "deserve it" ("righting wrongs through penetration"). But (as unbelievable as it is) people actually take "Dexter" much more seriously. The women in this movie are not just evil, they're cartoonish (if they had mustaches they'd be twirling them). Accusing a movie like this of "misogyny" is like accusing "Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner" cartoons of animal cruelty. Of course, this is pretty adult. The rape scenes are eroticized and the sexy, evil women (quite unrealistically, of course) end up enjoying the experience (which begs the question of exactly how much they're REALLY being "punished" here).

It is this latter aspect that would no doubt really wad the panties of the American "PC" crowd because it contradicts the bizarre idea that rapists, by and large, are poor confused souls who have been fooled by the media into thinking women "want" to be raped. But why give the REAL-LIFE scumbags that much credit? Rapists are mostly either sociopaths--who could care less about their victims (like most criminals)--or they are actual sexual sadists, who GET OFF on their victims suffering and would be very disappointed if their victims "enjoyed it". People have finally figured out the vast difference between consensual BDSM and sexual sadism. Well, the rape scenes in this movie are at heart consensual rape fantasy (which both women and non-rapist men at times enjoy) and simply are not going to have much appeal to genuine rapists.

It might be slightly more "offensive" that in his mild-mannered schoolteacher life his female students are all under-dressed, sex-obsessed "roritas" who give their hapless teacher a pair of their panties and tell him it's a handkerchief or tease him about becoming phone-sex operators (He gets flustered, but always remains very professional, and since they're mischievous rather than evil, they never encounter his alter ego). But maybe someday when people can separate harmless rape fantasies from actual rape, they'll also be able to separate harmless "schoolgirl fantasies" (these are actually pretty mature-looking "schoolgirls" and it wouldn't have been totally out-of-line for Rape Man to at least give them a good spanking)from actual pedophilia. In the meantime though the PC crowd should definitely avoid this, but it's a pretty fun movie for everyone else.